Stone Portals — Leo Robinson — Gameplay & Research Sharing March 22nd

Market Gallery is pleased to present a sharing of Stone Portals, two events unpacking artist Leo Robinson’s current research. Engaging with stone carvings from across three continents, Stone Portals explores questions of ancestry, ritual and belonging, hoping to provide often absent archetypal narratives to those searching for a sense of diasporic understanding. While you are…

Lily Krempel — Window Series artist — April 2025

We are so excited to introduce our next Window Series commissioned artist – Lily Krempel – who will be taking over our gallery space in April! Lily Krempel is a sculptor based in Glasgow. Her practice explores the stories of objects and processes of object-making – what an object might reveal about its maker and…

From A Distance / text response to the Reader Residency by Harvey Dimond

‘Hydrocolonialism riffs off the term postcolonialism and, like that concept, has a wide potential remit that could include colonization by way of water (various forms of maritime imperialism), colonization of water (occu- pation of land with water resources, the declaration of territorial waters, the militarization and geopoliticization of oceans), a colony on (or in) water…

as a point of departure | A little extra

as a point of departure was presented within Glasgow International 2024, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. In conjunction with their sound work, Alma Simba and Darragh Amelia offered a sharing of audiovisual and literary landing points which informed the process of making and communicating at distance. Film and TV This Is My Life (1992) dir.…

Library Digest: Kirsteen Stevenson

A review of Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby. Scanned Image: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, Verso Books, London, pp. 324-325, 160-161. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, begins with ‘the girl’ – the girl who is constantly asked ‘the question!’. ‘The  question’ was always lying in wait –…

Library Digest: Beulah Ezeugo

Keep it in Mind: A review of In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices by a.pass Scanned Images 1 & 2: Philippine Hoegen, Lilia Mestre, Various Authors (2022) In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, Onomatopee 181, Netherlands, pp. 210-211, 160-161. I started reading ‘In These…

Open Letter in Solidarity with the People of Palestine

Image: Yousef Anastas We, the committee members of Market Gallery, write to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and their struggle for life, freedom and dignity. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire. We condemn Western support of the ongoing occupation and systemic violation of human rights which normalises dangerous rhetoric and propagates…